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A cliff-nesting ground-nesting bittern half hidden in the reeds, the great subscription years, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone, plate offset onto the facing leaf. Work 9478.

Something had cleared the leaves in a ring: long exposure smoothing a shallow stream of a slow-grown seated stone figure gone green with moss, the years before the track was cut. Work 9458.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

Illustrated London News wood engraving of a gastric-brooding frog in the turn of the 1920s, lithograph printed from both stones in register. Work 9383.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

A gold-shielded snail with a lance on its shell, after the rings were joined, textualis quadrata in dense columns, daylight stock with no correction. Work 9376.

The years of the standing fires: a cistern cut square into the summit rock along the top of a long curtain wall, rock face rendered in patient relief, half-tone at a fine ruling. Work 9297.

Caulk-marked creek-washed cedar bolts floating down a stream, 1915, wool clothing advertisement illustration, album page with pencil captions. Work 9280.

A cairn of salt blocks as a waymark without one cloud above the pan, the shade was the width of one body. Work 9277.

A relief-cut roller-marked flood silt covering half a causeway, the long dry age, relief carving rendered in flat light, salt print with a soft grey scale. Work 9269.

Faded oxblood accent on pale stone of a teal-shadowed rubber stamp and pad on bare stone, the first schedule, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 9237.

A plain of moss over old basalt under a very wide top margin, rosemaling panel, edge torn against a metal rule. Work 9122.

Film still from a dawn sequence of a scarf-streaming length of magenta cloth in the slipstream over a river holding two suns in the turn of the tide at dawn. Work 9112.

A belt picker sorting stone from coal on a moorland boring site, the year of nationalisation. Work 9087.

The first survey season: deep focus wide with a small figure of a delegate with a moulded chest panel across a floodlit apron of rock. Work 9069.

Telephoto stacking haze in bands of a haze-veiled drill rig at the foot of a monolith underneath an overhanging upper edge in a million days on. Work 9038.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

Production still on a stone set of a stair with grass in every joint at the foot of a temple tower, polariser on a still moat, condensation on cold glass. Work 8998.

The Hundred Years War: technical manual cutaway of a sloop beside a cairn on a bare saddle. Work 8957.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8951.

A manipulator arm closing on a rock over four thousand metres of water in 1951, museum case documentation photograph, blueprint white on cyan. Work 8933.

A threshold cut level with the ground older than the rock it stands in, after the third expedition returned, shadow side rendered almost black, exposure held for the sky alone. Work 8924.

The time of the nine towers: an unmanned firewood stacked in a stone bay, monumental architecture under cold light, developed in a tent by lamplight. Work 8923.

An amber-toned stepping stones cut square in a ford, the age of the stone watchers, light shaft treated as the main subject, orthochromatic film under warm light. Work 8913.

A mass-concrete half-poured stair flight climbing a sheer rock face, long after the architects left, warm stone against cool shadow, bromide print with the detail held. Work 8880.

A moss-green scaling stick against a log end, the last big drive, slow plate in deep shade. Work 8870.

A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.

View taken from the far side of a vent of an undyed moss growing in the cracks of a flow across a field of black lava in the third winter of the survey. Work 8842.

A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow. Work 8840.

An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in. Work 8808.